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Miui Backup

I bought a new sd card and I formatted it. Before doing so, I did back up app, data etc
I am trying to reinstall the old backup on a Miui new rom. The problem is I copied all the back up but Miui backup doesn't show it.
How can I do this?

xda_apprentice said:
I bought a new sd card and I formatted it. Before doing so, I did back up app, data etc
I am trying to reinstall the old backup on a Miui new rom. The problem is I copied all the back up but Miui backup doesn't show it.
How can I do this?
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Anyone ???

xda_apprentice said:
Anyone ???
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using wat app did u backup??

walidhazem said:
using wat app did u backup??
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Thanks for your reply.
I used Miui back up. I formatted the sd card and is it possible to copy and paste the date to the new one?

i would assume it is possible providing that the folder names stayed intact and you made sure you had and ext3/4 partition for use on the card

Richy99 said:
i would assume it is possible providing that the folder names stayed intact and you made sure you had and ext3/4 partition for use on the card
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I managed to copy and paste it. Very simple and couldn't see the folders when I installed.

Wipe the SD card

Is the only way to wipe the sd card is to use CWM? Is there any other way? Also, will this have any negative effects to the device? Does the system require specific folders to work/run?

First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
Hope this helps
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r1tesh said:
First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
Hope this helps
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I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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bustinstugots24 said:
I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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DarkhShadow said:
Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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I dont see erase USB storage as an option.
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Use ADB from the CMD :
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata

Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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bustinstugots24 said:
Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.

Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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Wilks3y said:
I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.
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stijndebruin said:
Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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If I do the factory reset, I have a few questions.
One, will it cause me to lose root?
Second, will it also wipe the storage card? ( I would assume so)
Third, I never heard of this dead space issue. Why does this happen?

Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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stijndebruin said:
Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol

bustinstugots24 said:
Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol
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Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?

bustinstugots24 said:
Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?
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Anyone that can help?

bustinstugots24 said:
Anyone that can help?
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If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?

johnnyvol said:
If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?
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I grew the balls to just format the SD card using CWM. I was pretty nervous but it did reboot and it wiped everything.
I now have 13.0 gb free out of 13.2. Pretty pleased. Finally!.
I was also able to keep root as well.

Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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stijndebruin said:
Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.

bustinstugots24 said:
No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.
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Because the SD card is where you store pictures, music and other stuff, a factory reset wiping that would be a long process(copying it off then back on) and most of the time not required
and the space not showing up in storage settings menu, it only shows stuff in the default android locations, just a fyi
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[Q] TWRP Question

Hey guys So i managed to flash a rom , Even with some sort of error ? But still worked, Consider im new idk what it was.. But heres a question, Once i flashed the rom, Can i delete TWRP? Cause it takes a bit of place, And if i delete it, Will my backup dissapear aswell ? Thanks for answer.

You mean the twrp folder on your sd storage? You can delete it but it's the place where twrp stores your backups so copy them somewhere save first!
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Un4s said:
You mean the twrp folder on your sd storage? You can delete it but it's the place where twrp stores your backups so copy them somewhere save first!
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Where at exacly , Cause im new to this
Edit : I found it Another question, The backup is the one that takes so damn much space.. 3.23 gb.. Can i copy it to my pc perhaps ? Once i need it i can just copy it back ??

Croize said:
Where at exacly , Cause im new to this
Edit : I found it Another question, The backup is the one that takes so damn much space.. 3.23 gb.. Can i copy it to my pc perhaps ? Once i need it i can just copy it back ??
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Yes you can.
Somehow i can't send pms... Strange.
But yeah, just copy the whole twrp folder on your pc and move it back once you need it.

Un4s said:
Yes you can.
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Thanks bro Consider i use 16 gb , I really need all the space hehe..

Storage space internal

Hi all,
I just rooted today and got this Note 3 up and running. Coming from a Note 2. I am now getting a "storage space running out" notification. When I click on it says that my Misc files have 29.61GB of usage, however when I click on that-no folders stick out to me as having large file use? I have the stock ROM saved, as well as running BAJA in slot 1. Any suggestions on how to free up some space?

Don't use two roms with all your apps in both.
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Southern_mind said:
Don't use two roms with all your apps in both.
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Ok, thanks. Question is this, do I have to backup the current ROM I am using each time I move from slot to slot to maintain settings? or is it auto saved?

Found my answer to my above question however other than the bloat ware, I only had 3 apps that I downloaded on stock so something else has to be eating it.

LTLFTCer said:
Ok, thanks. Question is this, do I have to backup the current ROM I am using each time I move from slot to slot to maintain settings? or is it auto saved?
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if you moving the rom to a different slot a back up is best if you just loading a different slot no need for backup everything is the same as it was when you rebooted the phone its just like having more then one phone if you have more then one slot with a rom on it

started looking at moving my apps to the SD card, at least the ones I could and I only have 2GB of app taking space. And when clicking misc files, only 60MB or so of data is shown, so something huge is taking up internal space that I cannot see. I know BAJA is what, 1.7GB I think, could the stock ROM be taking up that much room?
And when plug it into the computer,it is showing 18.9GB free on internal????

Maybe trying doing a wipe and reinstall the ROM. With stock you should have about 22GB free out of the 32GB total. Sounds like something is glitched?

Maybe I got a bad download of Baja? I haven't tried to re download but everything worked except for this storage issue. I ended up wiping and sticking with stock root after wiping and reinstalling the Baja file I had didn't work again. Might just wait for 4.4 to come out and alliance to be released for the note 3 hopefully.

LTLFTCer said:
Maybe I got a bad download of Baja? I haven't tried to re download
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If it is a bad download and you didn't redownload then it won't fix anything...Why don't you redownload? It's only a little over 1GB and shouldn't take long.

Boot into recovery, create a new ROM slot. Increase the data partition size to the max(I believe its 4gb). Use this slot and flash ROM. Profit
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Novakingwai said:
If it is a bad download and you didn't redownload then it won't fix anything...Why don't you redownload? It's only a little over 1GB and shouldn't take long.
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Oh, I know, I don't have wifi at work and did everything I could without re-downloading at work. Sa the wipe and re-install of the old didn't fix it, so went back to the stock and set u y accounts and screens. Too lazy to do it again, lol.

accidentally wiped my data

hi all
i was flashing a new rom using twrp v2.8.3.1 and i accidentally left the data option checked and now i lost everything
please help i don't know what to do?

atsamoon said:
hi all
i was flashing a new rom using twrp v2.8.3.1 and i accidentally left the data option checked and now i lost everything
please help i don't know what to do?
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Restore a nandroid or push a rom.zip onto your phone through recovery and flash that or flash the factory image with fastboot
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jd1639 said:
Restore a nandroid or push a rom.zip onto your phone through recovery and flash that or flash the factory image with fastboot
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i did restore the system i know hot to do that
its that i lost all the data that i had pics docs pdfs apps everything
and some of those are very importanat

atsamoon said:
i did restore the system i know hot to do that
its that i lost all the data that i had pics docs pdfs apps everything
and some of those are very importanat
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Try disk digger from the play store. But most likely you're sol.
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jd1639 said:
Try disk digger from the play store. But most likely you're sol.
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tried it ,didn't work

download Recuva for your PC, connect your phone and then try to scan your internal memory and maybe you will recover something... but many files may be corrupted

atsamoon said:
hi all
i was flashing a new rom using twrp v2.8.3.1 and i accidentally left the data option checked and now i lost everything
please help i don't know what to do?
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Wiping data should leave media and internal storage alone. So pics and stuff I believe should still be there.
You not coming from a really old ROM to new are you and the path has changed ?
As in the emulated sdcard/0 or whatever it is.

pops106 said:
Wiping data should leave media and internal storage alone. So pics and stuff I believe should still be there.
You not coming from a really old ROM to new are you and the path has changed ?
As in the emulated sdcard/0 or whatever it is.
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I don't really know what was the emulated sdcard
I was on kitkat 4.4 purity and i upgraded to LP through flashing a zip file
and now my phone is wiped clean ,nothing on it ,I have tried some recovery apps and non has been successful
i lost all hope
anyway thnx all for replaying :good:

parkourz said:
download Recuva for your PC, connect your phone and then try to scan your internal memory and maybe you will recover something... but many files may be corrupted
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recuva couldn't detect my device and i already tried it with USB debugging on and off and storage set to as camera and mass storage